Milan is from Foresight Media s.r.o, who produce interactive Touch
Tables, that run Gentoo Linux. One of the products are a low cost
alternative to Microsoft's Surface. Be sure to check out an overview of their
products. Milan, thank you very much for your time. My first
question is this:

Who is Milan and how did you get started with Gentoo?

I guess I'm a product designer, developer, entrepreneur and part time
artist living in Central Europe usually in Vienna, Bratislava and
Prague. To be able to create inventions, new gadgets you either need a
ton of money or you learn how to do many things by yourself in a garage
or in my case in my atelier. For me it would be quite depressing to
‘just design' something :) And so I create prototypes, which I push
into serial production like my touch table designs. When I was 13 years
old I accidentally saw a magazine with a penguin. I thought it was a
cool logo of something. Then I saw it said that there's a free CD of an
operating system that I haven't heard of. I could not hack my
pre-installed commercial software enough and so I gave it a try and I
guess it's the usual story of many Open Source and Linux geeks from
there on :) After some time using various Linux distributions I saw
that the complexity and the number of regressions in many of them has
become so high over the years that I needed a system that would let me
stay in control and a system that would value it's own design. Gentoo
was a natural choice.